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kstewart33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 10:20 AM
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A question for gay DUers: What do you think?
Edited on Wed Jan-28-09 10:23 AM by kstewart33
On edit: sorry for the double post.

IMHO, Mitchell is classy and one of the best reporters around, but a gay icon? What do you think?

Gays Go Ga-Ga Over Andrea Mitchell!!!!
by John Koblin and Zachary Woolfe | 8:50 PM January 27, 2009
The New York Observer

Each week, one of us is lucky to have the opportunity to call up big New York City magazine and newspaper editors and shoot the breeze. Remnick! Graydon! Keller! What a job! But whenever he brags to friends about it, it never really goes over well. They either don’t know or don’t care.

This all changed a few weeks ago when the reporter spoke to Andrea Mitchell, the NBC News veteran. After casually telling one of our mutual friends, James, that there was an interview with Andrea Mitchell, he lost it.

On Gchat: “5:31 PM James: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Followed by: “it just boggles the mind that andrea mitchell knows who you are. this makes me giddy.”

More at:
http://www.observer.com/2009/o2/gays-go-ga-ga-over-andrea-mitchell#comments
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 10:23 AM
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1. Oh good God ...
by this reasoning, Log Cabin Republicans supporting Bush means Bush is a gay icon too.

I may be "out of the loop" with some of these things, but I'm willing to wager Andrea Mitchell is not high on the icon scale.
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 12:40 PM
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5. Don't all gays get the same memo? Today is Ga-Ga day?
let's see, tomorrow will be, "Let's be giddy day."

We already had the "pout" day and "footstomping" day. :eyes:

Look into the original OP in a little more depth, it is pernicious crap.

http://www.observer.com/2009/o2/gays-go-ga-ga-over-andrea-mitchell#comments

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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 10:39 AM
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2. She's no Maria Callas! n/t
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 12:04 PM
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3. I'm not ga-ga... I don't trust anyone associated with the profit-uber-alles news organizations.
Any talent or physical attributes are negated by her association with NBC.
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 12:33 PM
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4. Gays go "Ga-Ga" and get "Giddy?" I didn't get the memo.
But will add it to the list of slurs:

pout
foot stomping
Ga-ga
Giddy.

I used to collect stamps as a pup, now, I am starting to collect slurs. It's less expensive then stamps and new ones seem printed daily.

One gay friend does not a trend make.

So,how did this piece of sh*t journalism turn into a story? Well, the OP sent an email to their gay friends, I wonder if they disclosed that their comments would become part of an article and a written published piece to make them sound like idiots?

Their alleged "gay friends" camped it up in their email reply and thus, the OP wrote a story about gays going Ga-ga over Mitchell.

Then, they did even more probing journalism. MySpace! :sarcasm:

We decided to take a sample of some of our friends. We sent them an IM that went something along the lines of: “Andrea Mitchell: Secretly a gay icon?”

“I do love her! She’s so sassy,” said our friend Chris.

“I’ve always been more of an Eleanor Clift man myself,” said Adam, referring to the Newsweek writer and weekly McLaughlin Groupie. “There’s something to be said for gays and Sunday morning political talk shows, though.”

“I like her,” said Rick of Andrea. “She’s the Golden Girls rolled into one: the body of Sophia, the sassiness of Dorothy and probably a sex kitten like Blanche, and most likely from the Midwest, like Rose.”

Well, for the record, she’s from New York, but sex kitten? We’re betting yes. In an interview with Time in 2005, she was asked, “What’s your pet name for ?” She responded: “I can tell you it’s not Mr. Chairman.”

Yow!

We continued to test our theory. We went to her official NBC News biography online, and tucked at the bottom of the page we found a link to her … MySpace page. We clicked, we browsed and we reached the comments section. It was filled with comments from adoring fans, but more than a few of them suspiciously had a whole lot of gayface.

One comment came from DJ EDDIE KAY on Dec. 31 at 3:11 p.m. “Hi Andrea! :- ) Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year! Thank you for the years of entertainment!”

We wrote him a note and he gave us a call, and … score! He’s a friend of Dorothy and a big old lover of Andrea!

“I just get this impression from her,” he said, searching for the words. “She always looks flawless.”

Then he told us a story. “The thing that stands out most, someone was talking to her once and made a comment—and this was before the election, when things were getting nasty—and someone was talking to her about the economy and he mentioned her husband! They’re, like, ‘You know your husband would know more about that.’ And he was so catty about it! And then she was all, she, like, maintained her composure and snapped, ‘Don’t bring my husband into this!’ I can’t remember the exact works, but she went there.”


............

So, I went to the link, and sure enough, to my shock. shock I tell you, I unleashed a torrent of Ann Coutler level of political discourse. It seems Andrea Mitchell, is reviled for her looks! why? because to some "she looks like a man." :grr:

Anonymous (not verified) says:
Gag. Mitchell is an arch Conservative.

January 27, 2009 6:51 PM
replyflag thisAnonymous (not verified) says:
could it be as simple as she just looks like someone in drag?

January 27, 2009 7:31 PM
replyflaggedAmy House2 (not verified) says:
Does it have to do with the fact that she looks like a man in drag?

January 27, 2009 8:09 PM
replyflaggedAnonymous (not verified) says:
This site makes me feel icky...

And yes, it's because she looks like a man.

January 27, 2009 8:51 PM
replyflaggedparise (not verified) says:
is it because she looks and sound like a man.

January 27, 2009 8:53 PM
replyflag thisparise (not verified) says:
is it because she looks and sound like a man.




I have a question for staright DU'ers, do some of you think that gays are idiots? Just asking.... O8)
this is not an accusation, honest, it's just an innocent question...honest... :evilgrin:

I have a question for the muckracers who wrote that piece of trash, why don't you know or talk to gay women?

Cheerio. :puffpiece:
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kstewart33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 03:35 PM
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6. Could be the entire piece was written tongue-in-cheek.
I don't know. I posted it for comment, with no intent to trigger a tirade.
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 11:40 PM
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10. You got a comment, no need
to get pouty.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 09:00 PM
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7. streisand, kathy girffin -- yes --
but mitchell?

what sense is there in being a gay man -- if we go gaga over andrea mitchel?
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 10:01 PM
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8. She hasn't suffered enough to be an icon.
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 10:28 PM
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9. This gay man thinks that Mrs. Greeenspan
Is kind of a shill and little better than the shill Noron O'Donnell. Nothing original about her
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